eBook details
- Title: Israel's Last Prophet
- Author : David L. Turner
- Release Date : January 01, 2015
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,Bible Studies,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 6841 KB
Description
Jesusā words of indictment and judgment in the Gospel according to Matthew have fueled centuries of Christian anti-Judaism and the horrors of the twentieth-century Holocaust. The solemn parables and pronouncements of judgment in chapters 22ā23 come to a climax in Jesusā ironic command that the scribes and Pharisees āfill up the measureā of their ancestors, bringing upon their generation the judgment of God (Matt. 23:32ā36). But what did those words originally mean within Matthewās narrative? Carefully distinguishing what can be known from what may only be conjectured, David L. Turner examines how Matthew has taken up Deuteronomic themes of prophetic rejection and judgment and woven them throughout the Gospel, particularly in Matthew 23. Turner argues that the Gospel author was engaged in a heated intramural dispute with other Jewish groups and that the terrible legacy of Christian anti-Jewish violence results, in part, from a gross misunderstanding of Matthewās original context and purposeāon the part of generations who failed to recognize the authorās worldview and allusions.
